Type of Article: MacNews News Article

Quicken Essentials for Mac is now available from Intuit. Its release marks Intuit’s first Mac-native application for Quicken — that is, a product developed specifically to run on a Mac operating system, instead of adapting a product originally designed for a PC, says Aaron Patzer, vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Personal Finance Group. “

He says that QEM offers a Mac look-and-feel, easy navigation, and all the keyboard shortcuts users expect on Mac. Setup purportedly only takes 10 minutes. Users simply search for their bank, and synch using their online credentials.

ProteMac has announced ProteMac LoginTrap 1.0 (http://protemac.com/LoginTrap/), a tool designed to prevent unauthorized usage of a Mac. It monitors all log-in events and detects whether a log-in attempt was successful or failed.

After a log-in attempt is made the program captures an image from the iSight camera, so that you are able to see who is trying to break into your Mac. An alarm e-mail with iSight camera snapshot attached is sent immediately after a log-in attempt.

ActyMac has released ActyMac DutyWatch Remote 1.0 (http://actymac.com/DutyWatch_Remote/), a distant computer monitoring application for Mac OS X that can be used on an iPhone or iPod touch. The US$149.95 app lets you monitor a specific computer or a group of computers that have ActyMac DutyWatch installed within a local network.